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Originally Posted by devo22
yeah, depending on the direction they want to take, they have a pretty interesting and potentially promising situation at their hands. Toffoli is coming off a career year, players like Lindholm and Hanifin are always in demand, Zadorov had a solid year as well. Some of those contracts are absolute steals for 23-24 ... if you decide to trade some of those this summer and allow them to discuss a contract extension with a new team, I'd imagine you'd get a heck of a return. Backlund and Tanev, I'd see them more as trade chips for the deadline, but again, there should be a healthy market for those kinds of deadline additions.
We obviously don't know the new GM yet and therefore have no idea what they are going to do, and it's entirely possible they'll just run it back and hope for the best ... but potentially they could use this upcoming UFA thing to change course and build for the future.
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I think last summer I would agree with you, and the other poster, 100%. We were in a great spot to start a rebuild, although largely forced by Gaudreau and Tkachuk. However, I think the Hubredeau and Kadri deals severely limit our options and really hurt us if we want to go the rebuild route.